I hold a Ph.D in Renaissance Studies (University of Sussex); a 'Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere'- summa cum laude (University of Florence); a Teaching Certificate in Higher and Further Education  (City & Guilds Teachers' Certificate Stages 1 & 2).  I have taught, convened, and designed a variety of UG and PG modules, covering Italian and European culture (especially Dante, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare's appropriation of Italian Renaissance culture); early modern art; adapting literature and the language of ekphrasis; women's studies (Artemisia Gentileschi, Oriana Fallaci, and Elena Ferrante); landscapes of resistance and social justice; post-truth worlds. For the School of Media, Arts and Humanities I covered the role of Study Abroad & Visiting and Exchange Convenor. I have been nominated for the Sussex Education Awards in 2019, 2024, 2025, and 2026. In 2024 I won the Sussex Education Award for "outstanding contribution to the student experience" in the category "Inclusive Sussex". I am the author of  Michelangelo’s Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation, with Foreword by Brian Cummings and Introduction by Matteo Residori (Routledge, 2017), and  Michelangelo, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and their Poetry as Ekphrastic Frenzy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). My edited and cowritten books are: Ekphrasis in Italian Culture from 15^th -Century Humanism to the Digital Age (Cesati Editore, 2025); Early Modern Voices in Contemporary Literature and on Screen, ed. with Aaron M. Kahn (QuodManet, 2024); Nudity and Folly in Italian Literature from Dante to Leopardi, ed. with Simon Gilson (Cesati Editore, 2022); Resistance in Italian Culture from Dante to the 21st Century, ed. with Darrow Schecter and Fabio Vighi (Cesati Editore, 2019); Comedy, Satire, Paradox, and the Plurality of Discourses in Cinquecento Italy, ed. with Stefano Jossa (Renaissance and Reformation. Special Issue, 2017). I have also published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in international publications, and have contributed, as invited guest scholar, to the BBC Radio 4 Programme 'Talking of Michelangelo-The Poet'. My interview with multi-award Italian filmmaker Mario Martone has recently been published in the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (12:4, pp. 599-612).